F. Widmann

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 331 citations indexed

About

F. Widmann is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, F. Widmann has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 331 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 7 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 5 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in F. Widmann's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (10 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (7 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (4 papers). F. Widmann is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (10 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (7 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (4 papers). F. Widmann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. F. Widmann's co-authors include S. Gillessen, Michi Bauböck, R. Genzel, M. Habibi, Thomas Ott, P. T. de Zeeuw, F. Gao, Jason Dexter, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales and F. Eisenhauer and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

In The Last Decade

F. Widmann

15 papers receiving 294 citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Sgr A* near-infrared flares from reconnection events in a magnetically arrested disc
    2020 87 citations Jason Dexter, Alexander Tchekhovskoy et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
F. Widmann Germany 9 311 142 24 22 22 17 331
M. Habibi Germany 12 423 1.4× 170 1.2× 25 1.0× 23 1.0× 32 1.5× 19 437
Michi Bauböck United States 13 421 1.4× 177 1.2× 22 0.9× 25 1.1× 18 0.8× 16 434
Roseanne M. Cheng United States 8 633 2.0× 165 1.2× 38 1.6× 13 0.6× 28 1.3× 14 653
Lixin Dai United States 14 462 1.5× 199 1.4× 18 0.8× 26 1.2× 33 1.5× 30 527
J. Kolodziejczak United States 5 172 0.6× 67 0.5× 14 0.6× 15 0.7× 20 0.9× 10 209
Ildar Khabibullin Germany 12 354 1.1× 165 1.2× 10 0.4× 9 0.4× 38 1.7× 57 384
Frank Eisenhauer Germany 5 440 1.4× 91 0.6× 20 0.8× 45 2.0× 56 2.5× 5 455
Hiromichi Tagawa Japan 14 609 2.0× 108 0.8× 31 1.3× 14 0.6× 17 0.8× 24 652
M. Bremer Germany 13 423 1.4× 154 1.1× 33 1.4× 34 1.5× 37 1.7× 16 430
J. W. Broderick Australia 13 475 1.5× 266 1.9× 34 1.4× 9 0.4× 14 0.6× 39 494

Countries citing papers authored by F. Widmann

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Fields of papers citing papers by F. Widmann

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of F. Widmann

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of F. Widmann. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of F. Widmann based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with F. Widmann. F. Widmann is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Fellenberg, S. D. von, Gunther Witzel, N. Aimar, et al.. (2023). General relativistic effects and the near-infrared and X-ray variability of Sgr A* I. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 669. L17–L17. 8 indexed citations
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Young, A., S. Gillessen, P. T. de Zeeuw, et al.. (2022). Accelerations of stars in the central 2–7 arcsec from Sgr A*. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 670. A36–A36. 2 indexed citations
3.
Pott, Jörg‐Uwe, et al.. (2022). Piston Reconstruction Experiment (P-REx) – II. Off-line performance evaluation with VLTI/GRAVITY. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 511(4). 5709–5717. 1 indexed citations
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Fellenberg, S. D. von, S. Gillessen, J. Stadler, et al.. (2022). The Young Stars in the Galactic Center. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 932(1). L6–L6. 50 indexed citations
5.
Dallilar, Yigit, S. D. von Fellenberg, P. T. de Zeeuw, et al.. (2021). Flaremodel: An open-source Python package for one-zone numerical modelling of synchrotron sources. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Jiménez-Rosales, Alejandra, Jason Dexter, Sean M. Ressler, et al.. (2021). Relative depolarization of the black hole photon ring in GRMHD models of Sgr A* and M87*. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(3). 4563–4575. 16 indexed citations
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Dexter, Jason, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, Sean M. Ressler, et al.. (2020). A parameter survey of Sgr A* radiative models from GRMHD simulations with self-consistent electron heating. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(3). 4168–4186. 48 indexed citations
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Pott, Jörg‐Uwe, W. Brandner, S. Lacour, et al.. (2020). Testing P-REx on VLTI data. UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona). 17–17. 1 indexed citations
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Dexter, Jason, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, et al.. (2020). Sgr A* near-infrared flares from reconnection events in a magnetically arrested disc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(4). 4999–5007. 87 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gillessen, S., P. M. Plewa, F. Widmann, et al.. (2019). Detection of a Drag Force in G2's Orbit: Measuring the Density of the Accretion Flow onto Sgr A* at 1000 Schwarzschild Radii. The Astrophysical Journal. 871(1). 126–126. 47 indexed citations
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Habibi, M., S. Gillessen, O. Pfuhl, et al.. (2019). Spectroscopic Detection of a Cusp of Late-type Stars around the Central Black Hole in the Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 872(1). L15–L15. 26 indexed citations
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Plewa, P. M., S. Gillessen, Michi Bauböck, et al.. (2018). Optical Distortion in the NACO Imager. Research Notes of the AAS. 2(1). 35–35. 5 indexed citations
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Widmann, F., Frank Eisenhauer, S. Gillessen, et al.. (2018). Improving GRAVITY towards observations of faint targets. 69–69. 4 indexed citations
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Waisberg, Idel, Jason Dexter, S. Gillessen, et al.. (2018). What stellar orbit is needed to measure the spin of the Galactic centre black hole from astrometric data?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 476(3). 3600–3610. 20 indexed citations
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Widmann, F., et al.. (2017). P-REx: The Piston Reconstruction Experiment for infrared interferometry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 475(1). 1224–1237. 3 indexed citations
16.
Widmann, F., H. Beuther, P. Schilke, & Thomas Stanke. (2016). SiO: Not the perfect outflow tracer. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 589. A29–A29. 8 indexed citations
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Pott, Jörg‐Uwe, et al.. (2016). P-REx: the piston drift reconstruction experiment. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9907. 99073E–99073E. 2 indexed citations

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